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Anybody could come and tell his troubles to the President. Every Wednesday morning Gabriel González Videla cleared his desk, shooed away Cabinet Ministers, and for three hours held "Audiencias Populares." The sessions became so popular with Chile's Juan Pueblo that the waiting list soon reached...
Education of a Tramp. After the fourth grade in Pueblo, Colo., Damon Runyon's schooling ended, and his education began. His tutors (like "Our Old Man," as he later called his dad) were tramp printers who could quote the Bible, Shakespeare and Bob Ingersoll with equal conviction. From them he learned, among other priceless lessons, to be a good listener...
...when he got his first look at Manhattan and knew instantly that the big town was for him. But he had been a writer since he was twelve, when his father printed his first piece, a poem, in the Old Man's Pueblo Chieftain. By the time Damon hit Manhattan he had been soldier, sportswriter, boxing promoter, and manager of a saloon's ball club. He had knocked around enough to pick up flavor for a thousand short stories, and he was soon selling them, at $30 to $100 apiece. Eventually his name on a front cover...
Dreamland. In Pueblo, Colo., city officials sold a lot carried on delinquent tax rolls for 76 years, and thereby found that it had never existed...
Though Juan Pueblo-the Argentine-in-the-street-might goggle at the cost of these deals, he could hardly hide his pride at such proof of what Peron called "coming of age," and he was inclined to agree that now was the time to buy, when there was cash in the Argentine till...